Bailey and Love's Short Practice of Surgery

Summary:

Bailey & Love's Short Practice of Surgery remains one of the world's pre-eminent medical textbooks, beloved by generations of surgeons, with lifetime sales in excess of one million copies.

Now in its 25th edition, the content has been thoroughly revised and updated while retaining its traditional strengths. Under the stewardship of the eminent editorial team, comprising two editors with experience gained over previous editions and a third editor new to this edition, and in response to reader feedback, the content has been sub-divided into parts to ensure a logical sequence and grouping of related chapters throughout while the text features enthusiastically received in the last edition have been retained. The new edition opens with sections devoted to the underlying principles of surgical practice, investigation and diagnosis, and pre-operative care. These are followed by chapters covering all aspects of surgical trauma. The remainder of the book considers each of the surgical specialties in turn, from elective orthopaedics through skin, head and neck, breast and endocrine, cardiothoracic and vascular, to abdominal and genitourinary.

Key features:

• Authoritative: emphasises the importance of effective clinical examination and soundly based surgical principles, while taking into account the latest developments in surgical practice.
• Updated: incorporates new chapters on a wide variety of topics including metabolic response to injury, shock and blood transfusion, and surgery in the tropics.
• Easy to navigate: related chapters brought together into clearly differentiated sections for the first time.
• Readable: preserves the clear, direct writing style, uncluttered by technical jargon, that has proved so popular in previous editions.
• User-friendly: numerous photographs and explanatory line diagrams, learning objectives, summary boxes, biographical footnotes, memorable anecdotes and full-colour presentation supplement and enhance the text throughout.

Bailey and Love has a wide appeal to all those studying surgery, from undergraduate medical students to those in preparation for their postgraduate surgical examinations. In addition, its high standing and reputation for unambiguous advice also make it the first point of reference for many practising surgeons. The changes that have been introduced to the 25th edition will only serve to strengthen support for the text among all these groups.

• Brand new structure, with related chapters brought together into distinct sections
• New chapters added on a wide variety of topics including Metabolic response to injury; Shock and blood transfusion; Surgery in the tropics
• All aspects of trauma surgery brought together under the care of a highly experienced supervisory editor - Robert Handley
• Elective orthopaedics coverage consolidated into a comprehensive section, presented by body region
• Preserves the readable, clear, direct writing style, uncluttered by technical jargon, that has proved so popular in previous editions
• Text features include learning objectives, summary boxes and biographical footnotes

Table of Contents:

PART ONE: PRINCIPLES

• The metabolic response to injury
• Shock and blood transfusion
• Wounds, tissue repair and scars
• Surgical infection
• Surgery in the tropics
• Principles of paediatric surgery
• Principles of oncology
• Surgical audit and research
• Surgical ethics

PART TWO: INVESTIGATION AND DIAGNOSIS

• Diagnostic imaging
• Gastrointestinal endoscopy
• Tissue diagnosis

PART THREE: PERIOPERATIVE CARE

• Preoperative preparation
• Anaesthesia and pain relief
• Care in the operating room
• Perioperative management of the high-risk surgical patient
• Nutrition and fluid therapy
• Basic surgical skills and anastomoses
• Principles of laporoscopic and robotic surgery
• Postoperative care

PART FOUR: TRAUMA

• Introduction to trauma
• Early assessment and management of trauma
• Head injury
• Neck and spine
• Trauma to the face and mouth
• Chest and abdomen
• Extremity trauma
• Burns
• Plastic and reconstructive surgery
• Disaster surgery

PART FIVE: ELECTIVE ORTHOPAEDICS

• Clinical examination
• Sports medicine and sports injuries
• The spine
• Upper limb - pathology, assessment and management
• Hip and knee
• Foot and ankle
• Inflammation and infection and musculoskeletal tumours
• Paediatric orthopaedics

PART SIX: SKIN AND SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE

• Skin and subcutaneous tissue

PART SEVEN: HEAD & NECK

• Elective neurosurgery
• The eye and orbit
• Cleft lip and palate: developmental abnormalities of the face, mouth and jaws
• The nose and sinuses
• The ear
• Pharynx, larynx and neck
• Oropharyngeal cancer
• Disorders of the salivary glands

PART EIGHT: BREAST & ENDOCRINE

• The thyroid and parathyroid glands
• Adrenal glands and other endocrine disorders
• The breast

PART NINE: CARDIOTHORACIC

• Cardiac surgery
• The thorax

PART TEN: VASCULAR

• Arterial disorders
• Venous disorders
• Lymphatic disorders

PART ELEVEN: ABDOMINAL

• History and examination of the abdomen
• Hernias, umbilicus and abdominal wall
• The peritoneum, omentum, mesentery and retroperitoneal space
• The oesophagus
• Stomach and duodenum
• The liver
• The spleen
• The gall bladder and bile ducts
• The pancreas
• The small and large intestines
• Intestinal obstruction
• The vermiform appendix
• The rectum
• The anus and anal canal

PART TWELVE: GENITOURINARY

• Urinary symptoms and investigations
• The kidneys and ureters
• The urinary bladder
• The prostate and seminal vesicles
• The urethra and penis
• Testis and scrotum
• Gynaecology

PART TEN: TRANSPLANTATION

• Transplantation

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